1 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Department of Computer Science Gopal Gupta Erik Jonsson Professor and Department Head Department of Computer Science: An Overview

Computer Science at UTD: Past Founded in early 70s: Part of math sciences Became an independent program in School of Natural Science and Mathematics in the 80s Became part of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science in 1986 upon founding of the school Upper division BS CS added in the late 80s; Lower division added in 1990 Rapid growth in MS population in 80s, 90s and 2000s Significant growth in faculty and PhD population in the 2000s Significant investment through Project Emmit Computer Science at UTD: Past 2 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

3 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Computer Science at UTD: Present One of the largest departments in the country Largest Department at UT Dallas (11.5 % of population) ~2,900 students (1600 BS, 1150 MS, 150 PhD) 50 T/T faculty, 30 non-T/T fac., 12 part-time lec. BS, MS, PhD degrees offered in CS, SE, CE & TE ~225 course sections offered each semester ~700 students graduated each year 21 st in LinkedIn placement ranking Our faculty publish in top conferences & journals 8 to 9 Million in annual research expenditures $9-10 Million in new funding each year (33 rd rank nationally) Many initiatives to lift the department even higher

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5 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science CS Dept: Recent Accomplishments 300 new students added to the student roster in Fall’15 –500 new students added in Fall’14 –400 new students added in Fall’13 2 Tenure-track and 8 Senior Lecturers in last 1 year: –Faculty size: 81 $10+ Mn funding in the last academic year 3 NSF CAREER Award Winners in last 1 year Launched the new UT Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT DIISC) CS Department organized first undergraduate research symposium in April 2015; 2 nd in Mar 2016

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Great Progress Continues … Undergraduate education – new programs Graduate education – new tracks, increased applicant numbers, stronger applicants Research – increase in external funding, Community Outreach – significant expansion, largest program in the nation? Industry Interaction – significant increase Faculty hiring – outstanding hires (T/T & SLs) Marketing – campaign launched, new website

7 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Recent Faculty Additions Dr. William Semper Dr. Mehra Borazjani Ms. Laurie Thompson Dr. Richard Min Networks, SW Engg SW Engg Prog. Sequence AI, Prog. Languages Dr. Andrian Marcus Dr. Nicolas Ruozzi Dr. Lingming Zhang Dr Ben Raichel Ms. Karen Doore SW Maintenance Machine Learning Software Testing Comp. Geometry CS Education

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Programs BS in CS, SW Engg and Computer Engg –Faculty heavily focused on students’ classroom success Many innovations to make us the best in the nation: –CS 2 Honors Program –Living Learning Community –CS Freshman Experience –Computer Science Mentor Center –UT Design Capstone Project Program –Industry Internships –Undergraduate Research –Student Clubs –Programming Competitions & Hackathons –K-12 Outreach

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Why UT Dallas CS? CS Computing Scholars (CS 2 ) program: –Gifted Freshman CS students are invited to join this program (need to pass an exam) –Taught in a cohort of 30 max, by some of our best teachers –Scholars have their own lounge/lab –Many activities organized, and mentoring provided Living Learning Community: –CS/SE majors can be part of the living learning community in newly built on-campus residence halls; –Year-round activities involving faculty are organized Hackathon Faculty Game Night

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Program 10 BS CS BS SE Programming Sequence Discrete Mathematics CAPSTONE PROJECT SENIOR DESIGN TUTORINGUTDESIGN

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Why UT Dallas CS? Mentoring and Tutoring –Computer programming and Discrete Mathematics are foundations of computer science and software engineering –Round the clock tutoring and mentoring facilities provided to ensure students have adequate help outside the class. –Second Chance to Learn: highly successful way to engage students UT Design Capstone Project Program –Every student completes a capstone team-project in their senior year –Almost all capstone projects are industry sponsored –Great chance for students to gain practical experience

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________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Why UT Dallas CS? Undergraduate Research –Academically gifted students are expected to do research in their junior and senior year –Faculty advisors work with students to place them in appropriate faculty members’ labs Industry Internships –UT Dallas is located in an area that is home to hundreds of telecom companies. –Large number of internship opportunities exist for CS Department students –We run the 4 th or 5 th largest internship program in the country

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Why UT Dallas CS? Student Clubs –Organized under the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. –Many more student clubs, organized as special interest groups under student ACM exist: Linux Users’ Group Computer Security Group Women Who Compute.Net Group, Open Source Community Android Developer Group UTD Hackers Visit

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Why UT Dallas CS? Programming competitions –There are many active groups that meet every so often to work on competitive programming problems. Codeburners group: experts focused on advanced problem solving Codewarmers group: beginners interested in competitive programming –Competitive Programming Team: Coached by Dr. Ivor Page K-12 Outreach –UT Dallas Computer Science Department runs one of the largest university-based K-12 computer science outreach program in the nation (visit –Students can join as an instructor or volunteer to help our outreach efforts

________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Computer Science Faculty Highly distinguished faculty: –14 faculty hold the prestigious NSF CAREER award –Three Airforce Young Research Investigators –20+ best paper awards in last few years –More than 30 software systems developed and made available Faculty publish in top conferences and journals: –Intelligent Systems: AAAI/IJCAI, ACL, ICML, UAI, NIPS –Cyber Security: NDSS, ACSAC, Usenix Security, CCS –Networking: SIGCOMM, InfoCom, PODC, ICCPS –Systems: Multimedia, SIGGRAPH, ISCA, VLDB, RTSS, ICLP –SW Engineering: ICSE, FSE, POPL –Computing Theory: SODA, CAV, SoCG ACM “Publications Rank” of 29 th in CS & 24 th in SE

17 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Areas of Research Wide variety of research areas covered: Strategic areas of focus: - Machine Learning, Data Science, Cyber Security Focus on Interdisciplinary Research - Computing Theory: Medical Image Proc., Comp. Bio., Mathematics - Computer Systems: Medicine, Rehabilitation, Image Proc., Art & Tech. - Cyber Security: Mgmt and Math Sci (risk management), political sci. - Intelligent Systems: Medicine, Speech processing - Intelligent Systems - Computer Science Theory - Computer Networking - Cyber Security - Computer Systems - Software Engineering

18 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science CS Department: Centers & Institutes  Cyber Security Education & Research Institute (CSERI) (Director: Dr. Thuraisingham)  Human Language Technology Institute (HLTRI) (Director: Dr. Sanda Harabagiu)  Inst. for Interactive & Spatial Computing (UT DIISC) (Director: Dr. B. Prabhakaran)  Institute for Data Analytics (IDA) (Director: Dr. Ron Bose)  Net-centric Software Center (Director: Dr. Farokh Bastani)  Center for Software Testing (Director: Dr. Eric Wong)  iPerform: Center for Assistive Technology (Director: Dr. Ovidiu Daescu)  Center for CS Education and Outreach (Director: Dr. Jey Veerasamy)

19 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science CS Department: Accomplishments The Cyber Security Research Institute received 11 NSF Grants New NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center on assistive technology established New Center for SW Testing and Quality Assurance established with funding from NIST and industry Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu received the Homer Warner best paper award of the American Medical Informatics Association Ph.D. student Frederico Araujo runner-up in NYU-Poly AT&T best applied research paper competition Dr. Eric Wong received “Engineer of the Year” award from IEEE Reliability Society Grace Lecture Series to empower women CS students launched Many hackathons organized; next major one in March 2016

20 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science CS Department: Accomplishments Ranked 14 th in the nation for number of women undergraduate students Ranked 15 th in the nation for number of hispanic undergraduate students Ranked 24 th in the nation for number of african american undergrad. students

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22 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Student Placement An artifact of our location: ample internship opportunities: Large number of alumni in top companies

23 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Advise: Industry Funding Our federal/non-federal funding ratio profile is similar to a Tier One department However, our industry funding is dismal, way below the national average of 13%; we need your advise to fix this. Greater industry funding will help us improve our ranking, which in turn will attract even better students (who will turn out to be high-caliber employees) This funding is not largesse, companies get R&D done in lieu or join one of the two IUCRC

24 ________________________________________________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Advise: EMSE & IUCRC Industry-University Cooperative Research Center  Net-centric Software Center  iPerform Center for Assistive Technology Executive Master’s in Software Engg.  MS program for working professional  No GRE Required; 3 years of experience in lieu  4 th batch in progress; going extremely well How do we market these better?

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) 2016 will be held in Dallas, TX UTDallas Faculty are Program Chairs for 2016 Conference to be held at DFW Hyatt 700 attendees – half will be students at all levels nationwide Sponsorship partnerships available For more information contact Janell Straach

Women Who Compute (WWC) Speed Mentoring Event Evening of March 23 rd 2016 Mentors needed recent CS/SE UTD grads or executives in the field -- not recruiters Contact Janell Straach

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